By riding the tiger of populism, Tories may have destroyed the UK

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1. It contains a nice one paragraph summary of why Brexit was, at root, about neoliberalism.

The grievances that fuel provincial populism – economic decline, globalization, demographic change, pressure on services, disappointment with their own lives, fears for their children’s futures – can never be addressed by the narrow market solutions favored by Boris Johnson and his acolytes. Making a real difference to these people’s lives would require a degree of state activism and redistributive economic policy that most of today’s Tories cannot conceive of, let alone countenance.

Yes. The Leave votes were angry losers. But it was Tory and Labor policies that made them angry losers.